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Jun 19, 1566
James I takes the throne
He was king of England and Ireland and was the first king of both England and Scotland. his mother was forced to abdicate, so he came into power. His mother feld and his dad had died, they were an impact on him. Becasue of this he was the new king. -
Charles I faces rebellion in Scotland
Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles believed was divinely ordained.Religious conflicts permeated Charles' reign. His failure to successfully aid Protestant forces during the Thirty Years War,Charles's later attempts to force religious reforms upon Scotland led to the Bishops' Wars that weakened England's government and helped precipitate his downfall. -
Charles I signs the Petition of Right
Charles I came to the English throne in 1625. Parliament, however, had its own grievances against the crown and endeavored to force Charles into accepting a document detailing the traditional rights of Englishmen and ending arbitrary practices endured at the hands of the king. That document was the 1628 Petition of Right. -
when Charles 11 came to Englad
He came on May 29, 1630. He came to power becasue the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth and the country was a de facto republic. Oliver Cromwell was the one that led this, so he was the main person involved. He came to the throne. -
English Civil War occurs
The First English Civil War was commenced the series of three wars . Which began with the raising of King Charles I's standard at Nottingham adnd ended at the Battle of Worcester. For the most part, accounts summarize the two sides that fought the English Civil Wars as the Royalist Cavaliers of Charles I of England versus the Parliamentarian Roundheads of Oliver Cromwell. It inextricably mixed with, and formed part of, a linked series of conflicts and civil wars between 1639 and 1652 in the king -
Oliver Cromwell abolishes Parliament
Cromwell's improved social status and his connections with local Puritans led to his nomination as a freeman of the borough of Cambridge and election as MP for Cambridge in the two Parliaments of 1640. During the first week of the Long Parliament, he made a passionate speech that called attention to the injustice of the imprisonment of John Lilburne, and during the following month he was prominent in parliamentary attacks on episcopacy. Although he was not regarded as a fluent speaker, Cromwell. -
Habeas Corpus is passed
It was to define and strengthen the ancient prerogative writ of habeas corpus, whereby persons unlawfully detained cannot be ordered to be prosecuted before a court of law. Habeas Corpus Acts were passed by the British Parliament in 1803, 1804, 1816 and 1862, but it is the Act of 1679 which is remembered as one of the most important statutes in English constitutional history. -
James II comes to the throne
After the Restoration (1660) he returned to England and became lord high admiral in the Anglo-Dutch Wars, he converted to Catholicism after that. brought about the Glorious Revolution in 1688, and he fled to France. In 1689 he landed in Ireland to regain his throne, but his army was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne, and he returned to exile in France -
Glorious Revolution occurs
James II was an open Roman Catholic and this was not acceptable to the people. They had to put up with it because he had no son and so the succession would go to his protestant daughter Mary and her Protestant husband William of Orange. -
The english bill of rights was signed
He was deemed to have abdicated the throne, credence was given to this by the story that he had thrown the Royal Seal into the River Thames. William of Orange was married to James II's daughter since 1677. He was confirmed as a co-ruler of England before he came into power. He became the new ruler. -
Oliver Cromwell invades Ireland
He represented a purely Irish Catholic element. aHe did this becasue an Irish Protestant stationed in Munster opposed the Confederacy and laid waste to Munster. The munster was the reason he got religious. He stood up for what he believed in and made otehr people relize he was right.